Octorox said:
It's seems like a lot of the top and bottom of the movie on the 16mm film has been cropped off, making my 853x358 comment incorrect sorry :(. 853x358 is the dimensions of a scope movie stretched anamorphic and with the letterbox bars cut off

I'd just look at the DVDs and use that to decide how much to squash the picture.

Here's your whole vid corrected:
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/octolink_64/?action=view&current=grandecorrected.flv

Indeed, the frames are not complete... that was clear when I noticed that the bottom of Greedo's subtitles (on the 2-line subtitle) was chopped - not just on my capture, but on the film itself! My captures are really close to the boundaries of the film.

I will take your advice and eyeball it with the DVDs.

Your version of my vid is nice. What did you use to change the aspect ratio? I've been wrestling with an older version of Vegas, and not completely happy with the results. And I tried using "resize" in VirtualDub, but I keep getting an error message that it's incompatible with the compression (it works if I do it uncompressed - I was attempting it with the Panasonic codec).